Kiichiro Osoreda

Osoreda is a forty-three-year-old man with a long record of crime and drug abuse. He appears in the manga, anime, and the first live-action film, with only minor differences between versions.

Osoreda is volatile and dangerous, a desperate addict willing to use lethal force. During a botched bank robbery he shoots a teller and two customers while fleeing, and once aboard the bus he readily threatens the hostages and the driver to get what he wants.

Light writes Osoreda's name into the Death Note and dictates his movements. Under that control, Osoreda boards a bus bound for Spaceland, holds the driver Sasaki at gunpoint, and demands to negotiate a ransom for the passengers. He notices Light, who has staged dropping a slip of paper, and snatches it up to read what are written as harmless date plans. Mocking the note, Osoreda fails to realize it is a torn scrap of the Death Note, and the contact lets him suddenly see the shinigami Ryuk. Terrified, he empties his gun into Ryuk, but the wounds close instantly. He forces the bus to stop and bolts into the road, where a car strikes his head and kills him; investigators dismiss his vision of Ryuk as a drug-induced hallucination. The episode gives Light exactly what he needed, since Penber has been pressured into identifying himself, and Light soon kills him. In the film version, the dropped paper instead carries Light's plan to stop the hijacker, and Penber recognizes Osoreda from a newspaper rather than the news.